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SEED DRILL.

No. 399,460. Patented Mar. I2, 1889.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT EEICE.

MILLARI) FILLMORE II-IITE, OF GLEESON STATION, TENNESSEE.

SEED-DRILL..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,460, dated March 12, 1889.

Application tiled July 20, 1888.

.To all rubor/1, ity may conoeru:

Be it. known that I, MILLARD FILLnoRE WHITE, a citizen of the Unit-ed States, residing at Gleeson Station, in the eountyof Teakley and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Seed-Drills, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in seeddrills; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the aecompanyin g drawings, and pointed out in the elaim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a eentral vertical longitudinal section of a planter embodying the invention. Fig. 2 represents a plan view of the same.

side viewof the machine with the facing side eut away at top to show the eoaetion of the tappets on the eylinder and the slide-bar with the drop pin g-le ver.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the fra-ine of the machine composed of the side boards, o. d, having the handles o. seeured to their rear ends, the top connecting-board, d?, and the front transverse bar, L, to the Center of which the tongue or draftw pole B is connected in any suitable way. The heel of the tongue projects inward beyond said bar, and has secured to it a furrow-open er blade or share, (1*, of any desired style.

D is a hollow cylinder or drum having its shaft d jourualed in the side boards, o, and divided internallyinto two chambers, e e,b v the transverse partition E, through which the shaft d passes centrally.

e2 e2 are equidistant openings in the faee of the cylinder, which openings are preferably rectangular,andare biseeted by the partition. E, so that they willv discharge si multaneously from both chambms e e.

F is a sliding door with dovetailed edges that slide against and are held b v the corresponding edges of the entrance-opening of the cylinder, through whieh entrance may be had to the chambers e e.

The Cylinder is provided with circumferential rabbets in the outer surfaces of its end pieces, and in one of said rabbets are secured the equidistant horizont-al tappets G, which serve a purpose hereinafter explained.

Fig. 3 represents a Serial No. 280,497.

(No model.)

portion the projection j, that passes through' a slot, j in the front of the hopper, and is provided with an opening, j?.

K is a spring secured at one end to the 'top board and with its free end pressing upon the front edge of the lever J and keeping the openingj2 to the inner side of the feed-opening h of the hopper. The moving' end of the feed-lever .I has a downwardly-standing pin, L, that passes through a longitudinal slot, Y, in the top board, a?, and is secured on the upper edge of the slidebar M, that moves in guide-hrackets seeured to the adjoining side board a, and has a depending pin or projee tion, in, that stands in the path of the tappets G, and is struek thereby when the cylinder rotates. When the pin in so struck, the slide-bar is moved forward, the feeder-lever moved outward against the aetion on the spring, and the opening j2 passed over the feed-opening 71, perniitting a portion of the grain with which the hopper is iilled to es- Cape down the dropping-tube.

Feeder-levers having projections provided with openings ot' differt-nit sizes, according to the niaterial-sueh as eorn, peas, or smaller grain or seed desired to be planted-niay be used.

The cylinder may have one Chamber iilled with fertilizin g 1n aterial which will be dropped into th'e furrow when the openings e2 turn down ward.

Then the drill-tube and hopper are used for planting, fertilizer only ean be used in the cylinder; but when the same are not used one chamber of the cylinder Can be filled with fertilizer and the other chamber with cottonseed, which will be fed, together with the fertilizer, through the openings e? into the furrows.

N is a eoverer-plate having its ends inserted in brackets secured to the inner surfaces of the side boards, a, at the lower corners of the rear ends thereof, and O is a scraper-bar with its ends secured to the side boards and its lower beveled edge almost in Contact with the cylinder. The said eoverer aets in the usual well-known manner. The scraper prevents earth from adhering to the periphery of the cylindrical hopper and closing and choking the openings e2 thereof. The cylinder, besides being a plantingdevioe, acts also as a roller to Close the furrows Wh en the drill is being used.

It is evident that when the hopper and dropping-tube are used the cylinder can be used both as a fertilizer-distributer and roller in front of the eoverer N.

Having described my invention, I claim- The Combination, with the main frame, the hopper, the dropping-tube Communicating with the hopper through its bottom, the furrow-opener in front of said tube, the pivoted lever J, having` the perforated extension passing into a slot in the front of the hopper and provided with the pin L, passing` through the slot I, and the slide-bar M, pivoted to the pin L, and having' the depending' pin m, of the Cylinder D, journaled upon the main frame, provided with the door F and diseharge-openings e2, and having the tappets G in a eir- Cumferential rabbet at one of its ends as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing' as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MLLARD FILLMORE VHITE.

W itnesses:

HENRY Hoon, HOWARD RANDY. 

